Smyrna times., 1887-09-21
Smyrna and Vicinity.
THE housewives complain of scar.
city of OfPreserving peaches.

oil O111ct dIlO Y lclu1CY.
THE housewives complain of a scar.
city OfPreserving peaches.
NEW corn has been in market for
week or two for hog feed. The ears
are large and grain plump.
The Rev. Thomas Stevenson. of
Sherburne, N. Y, will preach at st.
Peters Chapel this evening.
The students going to distant insti-
tutions of learning have finished their
vacation and returned to school.
The Agricultural Fairs which COM
menced yesterday at Worton and Eas-
ton are favored with excellent weather.
THE Ladies Benevolent Society will
meet Tuesday evening September 9th
at $50 o'clock, at the residence of Mrs.
E. J. Colt.
The Citizens Hose Company have
engaged the Town Hall for the two
first nights after its reopening, when
they expect to present popular enter
tainments.
MEssRs. CAMPBELL & COLLINS, who
closed at Woodland Beach last week,
are making preparations to run a res
taurant at the Fair at Dover. which
commences on the 9th.
A LARGE funeral procession accom-
panying the remains of Benjamin Hal
lett, of Thomas Corner, passed through
town Sunday to the Odd Fellows Gene
terry, the place of interment.
ONE of the main bitches and most
important, running parallel with the
meadow at Collins Beach, will be COM
pleted within a few days. 1t is six
feet deep by thirty feet wide.
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, at Whining
ton, which re-Opened September 1st, is
a fine school for training for business,
business practice, shorthand or type
writing. Read the advertisement.
FISHING parties are catching large
quantities of very fine crabs at Collins
Beach inside of the embankment. They
are so thick that they catch them with
scoop nets without bait. Fishing is
also getting very good
BOwDLE BLADES, son of Wesley
Blades, of this town, who grew up here
and went to Philadelphia several years
ago, died and was buried in that city
yesterday week, just one week from
the day he was married.
A QUARTERLY MEETING will be held
at BlackistOn's, Rev. r. K. Stephenson,
pastor, on Sunday, September oath.
LOveteast at A. NJ; preaching at l01
A. NJ. by Rev. John France. There
will be no service in the afternoon.
On Friday at "A o'clock in the morn
ing, the sun enters the sign Libra, and
the astronomical autumn commences.
A delightful equilibrium prevails. The
ecliptic and equator coincide, and the
sun shines upon the earth from pole to
pole.
THE Postofice Department at Wash
ington will issue in a few days or so
stamps of different cOlors and designs
from those now in use. They will be
sent to the various pOstOfices upon re-
quisitiOn as soon as the present supply
is exhausted.
THE Peninsular Bone Fertilizer Com
pany report their sales of phosphate
thus far this fall in excess of the entire
sales of last fall. The business activity
among all the phosphate manufacturers
would indicate there is faith in the
future despite the present depression
in prices of grain.
THE quarterly commemOratiOn of
the Lords Supper was observed in the
NJ. E. Church on Sunday morning,
Rev. Mr.. Robinson preaching at night.
The Love feast will be held tomorrow
evening, at the close of which the
Presiding Elder will hold the third
Quarterly Conference.
WILSON T. LAVENDER and family
spent all last week in Philadelphia.
He says that a number of Philadel-
phians whom he met expressed them
selves in very complimentary terms OF
/ the part Delaware took in the great
military pageant-bOth in the number
Of men in line and their sOldierlike
bearing.
AMONG the others who were relieved
of valuables last week in Philadelphia,
according to the papers Of that city,
was w. A. G. Hardcastle, Of this town,
of gold watch. The presence of such
immense thFOngs, estimated Mt ! 100000
people, mostly concentrated on one
street, gave fine opportunity to the
pickpockets.
PRESIDING ELDER FRANCE will hold
a convention or conference of the
preachers Of this end Of the District
which includes ten or twelve ministers
in this town on Tuesday and Wednes.
day next. 1t is expected that Rev. r
| II. Adams, Of MiddletOwn, will preach
on Tuesday evening. The p. r. will
bold similar meetings in one or two
other parts Of EastOn District.
THERE is a vast difference in the
management Of Executors and Trus
tees sales in Maryland and Delaware
In the first named state they are hber
ally advertised in the papers aud get the
benefit derived from publicity. In the
latter state they do not advertise, de
pending on few hand-bills; the sale.
are generally unsatisfactory, and hal
the time the property is withdrawn.
THE amusement-loving portion o
our community have a chance to bS
gratifcd this day week. Consequently
when Wallace & Co. Great Worldf
Menagerie and international Three
ring Circus spreads its broad canvass
in our town, next Wednesday, ther'
will be a tremendous rush to visit j
and to witness the many specialize
which It will present, and which hav'
received immense commentator
wherever the show has exhibited.
ED. BECK, one Of ]. E. Carter's youni
painters, narrowly escaped a seriou
accident while at work on John 7
Hudson's new house on Monday. tn
extension ladder had not been securel.
tied, and while Al work on It, Owe
twenty feet above the ground, the fas
? tening gave way throwing him, ~ thl
Q fall catching his foot and suspepdinj
! him thereby. Simultapeous with thi
came the bucket 0f pai9t emptyiql
itself on his head and filling his mopti
? aud eyes, He was speedily relieves
: and was allrightalter good scrubbine